Ploi Pirapokin

Artist Statement

My fiction and nonfiction primarily centers on my experience of being a third culture individual, and nonimmigrant in America. I’m drawn to borders, lines, and laws, as ways people use to curate themselves. When does the individual become the national? What is man-made and what is innate? What do you lose or gain inside boxes? My writing explores what it means to belong, commit, and attach to a culture, and what happens when those cultures estrange and interrogate one’s inherent ethnic upbringing.